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Most people can achieve the recommended calcium intake by eating three or four servings of dairy products and other foods that contain calcium per day. Supplements are an additional tool to be used when needed.

(CBS) New research shows that calcium supplements can help older women avoid the crippling brittle bone disease osteoporosis — but only if they’re taken on a regular basis.

As The Early Show medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay explained Tuesday, calcium provides the building blocks necessary to make sure bones are dense and strong. Getting enough calcium early in life can reduce the risk of fracture and the bone-weakening condition osteoporosis later on.
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Study: 15,000 U.S. Nonsmokers Die From The Disease Each Year

“Approximately 85 percent to 90 percent of all lung cancer deaths in the United States are caused by active cigarette smoking.”
Michael Thun, M.D., and colleagues in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute

(WebMD) A new study sheds light on lung cancer deaths in lifelong nonsmokers.
The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, includes these findings:

Among people who never smoked cigarettes, women aren’t more likely than men to die of lung cancer.
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